-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:08:53 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Bringing it back to the issue it's solving: > > Afaict, for migration: > > - - DEPEND changes to HDEPEND
If we're going by Chromium, AFAICS they're only making this change when they find they actually need it to get the resolver to give "the right answer", and otherwise leaving DEPEND as-is. This strikes me as being heavily in Doing It Wrong territory. > - - the new DEPEND now will be used for things that are *currently* in > RDEPEND and DEPEND (so that things will work) but are not actually > run-time dependencies. Said atoms will then be removed from RDEPEND > (and not be included in the new HDEPEND either) as they aren't really > supposed to be there in the first place. I'm not entirely sure that there are more than a handful of very special cases that would be covered by the second point. Can anyone provide examples? - -- Ciaran McCreesh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBKVbQACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHcUwCfdNq3MSMyYBAx19ImoOtWFMRM l2UAoM6DfYJOCL4tLwZ3s6Jeh/6CzBCI =FIrN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
